كتاب اليميني :شرح أخبار السلطان يمين الدولة وأمين الملة أبي القاسم محمود بن سبكتكين، ومدح مقاماته في عديده وأنصاره وما يتصل بها من أخبار ولاة الأطراف في جواره /مما جمعه محمد بن عبد الجبار العتبي.

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Title:
كتاب اليميني :شرح أخبار السلطان يمين الدولة وأمين الملة أبي القاسم محمود بن سبكتكين، ومدح مقاماته في عديده وأنصاره وما يتصل بها من أخبار ولاة الأطراف في جواره /مما جمعه محمد بن عبد الجبار العتبي.
Alternative Title:
  • Kitāb al-yamīnī :sharḥ akhbār al-Sulṭān Yamīn al-Dawlah wa-Amīn al-Millah Abī al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn Sabuktakīn, wa-madḥ maqāmātihi fī ʻadīdihi wa-anṣārihi wa-mā yattaṣilu bi-hā min akhbār wulāt al-aṭrāf fī jawārihi /mimmā jamaʻahu Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbār al-ʻUtbī.
  • Tārīkh al-yamīnī
  • تاريخ اليميني
Date:
  • 602
  • 1206
Creator:
Description:

  • Manuscript codex.

  • Title from colophon, leaf 54b.

  • Physical description: 21 lines per page, written in naskh script, on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Partially vocalized. Section headings and most marginal notes in red. Catchwords. Some insect damage.

  • Explicit: وقبح [الله مـ]ن عمره على زيادة الاثام ومسآة الانام جيازة الملام [ويرحـ]م الله عبدا قال آمينا

  • A history of the Ghaznavid ruler Yamīn al-Dawlah Maḥmūd ibn Subaktakīn, 971-1030 (hence the title of the work) and his father Nāṣir al-Dawlah Sabuktakīn (died 997) who ruled in parts of Iran, Afghanistan and Punjab; incomplete at the beginning. Front cover detached.

  • Modern half leather with marbled paper boards. Label on front cover reads "Tārīkh-i yamīnī-i ʻUtbī. "

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Format:
Language:
Arabic
Extent:
55 leaves ; 243 x 164 mm, bound to 243 x 165 mm
Digital Collection:
Early Manuscripts collection
Catalog Record:
https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE008004925
Provenance:
  • Source of acquisition: Gift; Bruce Lawrence.
  • Ownership history: Copy completed in Ramaḍān 602 H [April 1206] (leaf 54b).
Rights:
Free Re-Use
Public Domain
Identifier:
  • Call number: Arabic MS 22
  • 008004925
  • duke:448672
  • emsar01018
  • ark:/87924/r4ws8kj3r
  • ac8b81d0-ddad-4f35-b643-5a2a8f4d7e90
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